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The Week In Review
Mon 23rd November to Sun 29th November
The Week in Review aggregates the top news stories from the past seven days and orders them by popularity. Would you like to see the whole week's news?
Anti-corruption investigation leads to dismissal of bent PC
27/11/20 - PC caught in uniform using a marked police vehicle working with an associate who dressed as an officer to "seize significant amounts of cash" from drugs couriers. • A Metropolitan Police PC has been dismissed after a corruption investigation by Professional Standards into the wholesale movement of drugs and the laundering of hundreds of thousands
IOPC passes file to CPS over photos of murdered sisters
26/11/20 - A total of 13 Met officers are under IOPC investigation over allegations which now include cheating in an exam and discriminatory language, after photographs of a murder scene were shared in June. • A file of evidence relating to allegations that two Metropolitan Police officers took and shared inappropriate photographs of two murdered sisters
Supervised IOPC complaints take an average of more than two years
30/11/20 - Last year's data (2018/19) was the first time in 10 years that more allegations were locally resolved than were subject to supervised investigations by the complaints body. • Internal investigations into complaints against officers supervised by the IOPC took an average of more than two years to complete compared to just over five months
- 25/11/20 - New centre will bring London-based CT policing under one roof
- 25/11/20 - Officer suicides exceed deaths on duty according to latest ONS figures
- 25/11/20 - Dorset PC convicted of manslaughter to appeal against sentence
- 24/11/20 - Single Online Home could accept video evidence by next year
- 25/11/20 - Treat social media with caution, Federation tells officers
- 26/11/20 - PC dismissed for dishonesty over purchase of supermarket doughnuts
- 30/11/20 - Rising number of males under 30 engaging with extremists
- 25/11/20 - Pay freeze for all but new recruits, Chancellor announces
- 28/11/20 - Surrey digs in for new green HQ
- 25/11/20 - Ex-Suffolk officer jailed for throwing away seized cocaine
- 26/11/20 - Sheku Bayoh death in custody Public Inquiry to begin next week
- 26/11/20 - LGBTI officers crucial to improving community relations says chief
- 27/11/20 - Officer who survived coronavirus shares his story
- 24/11/20 - New Counter Terrorism Operations Centre to be built in five years
- 26/11/20 - Celebrations for promotion hopefuls as sergeant results revealed
- 23/11/20 - London Mayor candidate delivers doughnuts to every station in the city
Features
OOCDs: the path to best practice
The pandemic highlighted the need to increase the range of deferred prosecution options forces have to deal with offenders. But the landscape is changing with the prospect of new legislation and some innovative pilot schemes. Gary Mason reports. • The policing landscape relating to out of co
Comment
Comment: where next for policing and technology?
Forces have moved very quickly to much greater digital working during the pandemic. But more complex challenges lie ahead warns former deputy commissioner Sir Craig Mackey. • The Covid crisis has offered a unique catalyst for change in the way the public sector uses technology. During the pandem
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